The Great Place Scheme is a 3-year arts and heritage program funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England to engage communities in Park Royal and Old Oak areas undergoing change. The program aims to strengthen community identity and involvement, showcase the area's history of manufacturing, and deliver arts events to raise the area's profile. Initial activities include skills sharing games and group discussions to help shape upcoming projects focused on art, food, businesses and public spaces.

1. Great Place Scheme
Funded the Heritage Lottery Fund
and Arts Council England
Grace Williams, Great Place Scheme Programme Manager
6 March 2018

2. Great Place Scheme

3. What you told us…
In 2016 you helped form our Objectives Settings:
• Focus on people and place
• Increase awareness about the area and its people through legacy events
• Be inclusive – reflecting the diversity of people and businesses in the area,
including harder to reach/socially excluded groups
• Create a model for engagement and outreach
• Platforms for learning/teaching/inspiring
• Improve way-finding and safety of the area
• Activate the public realm
• Positive, visible impact on the area
• Create a destination, that generates more visitors, more investors, more
funding opportunities, more jobs

4. Your ideas included…
Food
• Waste/recycle/reuse initiatives
• Energy creation
• Foodbank schemes
• Restaurants/Pop Up/Supper
Clubs
• Community Eating/Picnics
• Food Festivals / Markets and
Events
• Cooking class/demos –
education
• Feeding the workforce – HS2
and other
• Growing food, community
allotments
• Sculpture gardens
• Focus on health and wellness
Creative Industries
• Way-finding, signage, treasure trails
• AR, virtual Park Royal walks – tech
tools for engagement and teaching
• Training and workshops, taster/have a
go sessions
• Open Businesses instead of Open
Studios
• Films – to tell stories,
#madeinParkRoyal, Park Royal TV
• Work with UWL and UAL – research
students collaborating with start up
industries
• Work experience opportunities /
Schools programmes
• Intergenerational opportunities
• Live arts, music events, art
installations, street art
Placemaking
• Create an identity, visible, increase the profile of
area – naming/signing
• Local markings at tube stations and at areas
suitable for events, open spaces
• Oral histories about heritage of area
• Plan for the infrastructure so that places can be
used for events (cabling, water, electricity)
• Lighting of area: routes, buildings
• Places to play - giant board games
• Hoardings – creative uses
• Display, celebrate any archaeological finds from the
development, or old stories/photos of the area
• Meanwhile use of empty spaces
• Flotilla down the canal
• Bike-hire schemes

5. The Programme

6. The Programme

7. Aims
This 3-year arts and heritage programme will:
1. Actively engage the communities in and around Park Royal and Old Oak – both residents
and workers. At a time of unprecedented change, the programme will help create a diverse
network of local people and organisations who will be better placed to help shape the area’s
future plans.
2. Strengthen the role of businesses and workspace as a positive part of the future identity of
the area by working with the amazing businesses already there to explore and showcase its
history of manufacturing and innovation.
3. Deliver an extraordinary, high profile arts and heritage programme led by over 50 artists and
creative partners that will raise the profile of Park Royal and Old Oak.
4. Create a stronger and more distinct identity for the area, generating new investment,
attracting new business, inward investment and engendering a stronger sense of local pride.

8. Where do we start?
Park Royal Centre
Old Oak
Wormwood Scrubs

9. Early activity

10. We can’t do this without you…
• What can you share?
• How can you get involved?
• You are the experts in knowing the area, the local people and local
assets better than we do
• We want Great Place Scheme and other OPDC projects that we deliver in
the area to be truly community-led…

11. Activity 1: Skills sharing game

12. Skills sharing game

13. Activity 2: Group discussion

14. Up and coming projects
• Art Commissions
• Community Meals and Food Projects
• Park Royal is Open
• Capital works/ Public realm
• Made in Park Royal
• Small Grants Programme
• Heritage and History
• Skills and Employment

15. Next steps
• We’re hoping to hold out next meeting in May 2018 (exact date TBC)
• We might be in touch with some of you before then to discuss certain ideas in more
detail
• We hope to develop a more formalised group of community members who can help to
shape and steer activities and projects (Something like Active Citizens / Community
Champions / Ambassadors? – ideas for a name would be welcome!)
• If you would like to take an active role in this group or act as an ambassador to recruit
more members, please let us know
• Do you have ideas for venues for future meetings and events? If so, please add to the
map
• Who is missing from this evening? Who can you bring next time? Please spread the
word and ask them to join us
• Sign up to our mailing list if you haven’t already

16. Dates for your diary
• Old Oak and Park Royal Community Forum on Tuesday 27 March
RSVP via: http://bit.ly/OPDC-Mar18Forum
• Join us at the next In the Making - community briefing & discussion on
Wednesday 9 May
RSVP via: http://bit.ly/OPDC-9May2018
• Monthly Free Walking Tours (2.00pm – 4.00pm):
Wednesday 25 April – Standard Road
Saturday 26 May – East Acton, Wormwood Scrubs and Old Oak Lane
Wednesday 20 June – Carpets and Cakes (St Leonards Road Area)
Saturday 28 July – Willesden Junction, Scrubs Lane and the canal
RSVP via: http://bit.ly/OPDCevents

17. @oldoakparkroyal
www.london.gov.uk/opdc
info@opdc.london.gov.uk
020 7983 5732